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by aufreak3 5819 days ago
You're right that they could actually make an impact.

Now with F# and clojure available as dev languages on .net (soon, if not now), maybe even the "cool kids" will find it fun. Cheering google over msft has been fun, but what we're really cheering for is choice. You don't want only one player in the cloud space.

Further, if they can offer DirectCompute in azure, that'll be a huge differentiator that'll attract the processing intensive apps.